Batman™: The Dark Knight Challenge

Overall: Mediocre. This was our first Escapology room but not the first escape room in general. We came on a sale, and honestly, it was fun, but I would have been disappointed if I had paid full price. The rooms are rather small, fine for me and my partner but I can imagine being cramped for any more than 3-4 people. The puzzles varied wildly in difficulty, with some being easy enough for children and some being rather unintuitive (maybe an "us" problem). The Batman theming was OK. There are better designed rooms in Charlotte than this one for the same price.

This room is alright. Not that many puzzles. Good theming. The GM didn’t give us helpful clues even though we were stating exactly what the problem was. We wasted 10 minutes on a single puzzle that we got right the first time but it wouldn’t take.

The props were fun! The puzzles were meant to be linear, but were far too messy to feel linear. The logic jumps were REAL. Too lit for the black light to really be effective. The game wasn't set up for replay when we were brought into the room, the computers/ screens had to be booted up, magnet locks were already open. Just not an overall good experience. The gameplay was overall just not fun.

I was very excited to do this room. Aesthetically the room looks great. The first part of the puzzles were beyond simple, the second part was slightly more challenging. The last room you unlock is not good. We had things unlock that weren’t supposed to, then we got to a point where it said congratulations you succeeded but there were still two puzzles we never even touched. Our games master was not helpful (the manager was nice) but our game master didn’t even realize that the room skipped a lot. When we told her that we never got to open two of the bigger puzzles she said yes you did. We had to bring the manager in to show him that the room did malfunction. I was not impressed by the game play or the way this was handled. The only thing that is great about this room is the set and props.